Flash Animation 17: Controlling Movie Clips With Buttons and ActionScripting

Before we finish with this movie clip, we need to insert a stop both at the beginning and at the end of the timeline. We have to do this because movie clips by default load and play immediately, and will continue cycling through the playback in repeating loops for the duration of the main movie. We don't want the clip to start until we tell it to, so we want to put a stop on the first frame so that it's frozen at the beginning. Putting a stop on the last frame prevents it from cycling and repeating.